dump

1 a place where waste or rubbish/garbage is taken and left(British English)a rubbish dump(North American English)a garbage dumpthe municipal dumpa toxic/nuclear waste dump

2(alsomine dump)(South African English)a hill that is formed when waste sand from the production of gold is piled in one place over a period of time

dirty place

3(informal,disapproving)a dirty or unpleasant placeHow can you live in this dump?

for weapons

4a temporary store for military suppliesan ammunition dump

computing

5an act of copying data stored in a computer; a copy or list of the contents of this datasee alsoscreen dump

waste from body

6[countable](slang)an act of passing waste matter from the body through the bowelsto have a dump

Word OriginMiddle English: perhaps from Old Norse; related to Danishdumpe and Norwegiandumpa

‘fall suddenly’

(the original sense in English); in later use partly imitative; compare with thump.Extra examplesRadioactive waste has been found at the dump.They took the mattress to the dump.a new dump for nuclear wastecleaning up a toxic waste dumptaking rubbish to the dump